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Donch

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About Donch

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/donovanhide; my proof: https://keybase.io/donovanhide/sigs/eKnze3TRQv7DowxW4aYRMJvc_CkWF58NsHMvTx9mgWc ]

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    Comment #12922361

    Local legend says that Birkenhead Park was an influence to Olmsted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park#Influence

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    Comment #11356657

    Very sad. Here's some gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNHX_gVKJ0 Watch all seasons of The Larry Sanders Show!

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    Comment #10722711

    Here's another one :-) https://github.com/donovanhide/stockfighter Based on the docs and only tested against the unauthenticated endpoints so far...

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    Comment #9857542

    People subscribe to Go lists because they want to discuss technical aspects of a programming language. For other topics, there are other venues. Yes, and for highlighting off-topic…

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    Comment #9844671

    Much more authentic: https://twitter.com/bbc_micro_/status/572313372345016321 The plastic which held them in place was always broken on the school computers :-) In all seriousness …

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    Comment #9844498

    *sheet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSheet

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    Comment #9827067

    Read all three! Thanks for the reading list extension and gratuitous downvote :-)

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    Comment #9827016

    Read "Flash Boys" for a better insight into how much difference variable latency between exchanges and clients makes to the profitability of fast execution of trades. https://en.wi…

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    Comment #9260713

    Reminds me a little of Apple's buyout of the compositing software Shake from Nothing Real and their brutal "end of life" process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_%28software%29 …

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    Comment #8814606

    I believe he went to Google.

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    Comment #8814346

    Has the fork author discussed with Mikio the implications of forking and the need for a commercial license for proprietary applications? It's a shame that development stopped on Ky…

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    Comment #8736440

    Care to share any details on the hashing scheme? Is it based on linear hashing, a la Litwin and Larson?

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    Comment #8736430

    Thanks for the reply. Interesting that linear hashing had such a big effect, seeing as it is meant to be a slowly-occurring process that only happens when the average load factor o…

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    Comment #8735689

    "We abandoned them in favor of B-trees in OpenLDAP 2.2 because extensive benchmarking showed that BDB's B-trees were faster than its hash implementation at very large data sizes." …

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    Comment #8442330

    I was just about to make the very same suggestion. Ignore the list and just read this book! The threading of the 'jaunting' concept was way ahead of its time in 1956 and the inspir…

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    Comment #8111863

    Number one link on Hacker News is an article stuffed full of Amazon affiliate links for personal heating products. Something isn't right.

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    Comment #7783880

    Cross posted here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers/comments/266m12/selling_my_...

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    Comment #7747448

    Frankly, that is true art. Inspired.

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    Comment #7661882

    It was an example of a language feature, that is short variable declarations in type switches, which avoid repetitive casting. The example below has the default clause which handle…

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    Comment #7661615

    It's horrible method with a horrible signature, that I didn't test :-) But the short variable declaration in the type switch does indeed save the casts the OP was complaining about…

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    Comment #7661239

    The example could have been simplified: func abs(x Top) Top { switch v := x.(type) { case int32: if v

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    Comment #7552664

    ./bin/Heartbleed openssl.org:443 2014/04/08 12:15:44 ([]uint8) { 00000000 02 00 79 68 65 61 72 74 62 6c 65 65 64 2e 66 69 |..yheartbleed.fi| 00000010 6c 69 70 70 6f 2e 69 6f 59 45 …